Sunday, May 28, 2017

Here’s Why Saudi Arabia and Israel are Allies in All But Name by Adam Garrie from The Duran

Israel and Saudi Arabia both seek to
destroy Syria and in doing so, destroy the last bastion of secular,
tolerant and modern Arab government that remains totally un-compromised
in its foreign and economic policies.

Those who claim that Israel is opposed to Donald
Trump’s now openly warm relations with Saudi Arabia are missing the
actual point. On the surface, many assume that Israel and Saudi Arabia
have poor relations. Neither country has diplomatic relations with one
another, one is a self-styled Jewish state while the other is a Wahhabi
Sunni monarchy.
But they both have the same regional goals, they both have the same
enemies and both are intellectual anachronisms in a 20th century that
has seen the fall of multiple monarchies, the end of traditional
European colonialism and the fall of segregated regimes in Africa
(Apartheid South Africa and UDI Rhodesia for example).
Israel and Saudi Arabia have always been enemies of secular, Arab
nationalist states and federations. Whether an Arab state is Nasserist,
Ba’athist, socialist, Marxist-Leninist or in the case of Gaddafi’s Libya
a practitioner of the post-Nassierist Third Political Theory: Israel
and Saudi Arabia have sought to and in large part have succeeded, with
western help, at destroy such states.Time to buy old US gold coins
Unlike Israel’s Apartheid military state and Saudi Arabia’s human
rights free monarchy, the aforementioned Arab styles of government are
worthy of the word modern. These are countries which had
progressive mixed economies, had secular governments and societies, had
full constitutional rights for religious and ethnic minorities, they
championed women’s rights and engaged in mass literacy programmes and
infrastructural projects. In the case of the Syrian Arab Republic, such
things still apply.
Such things still have wide appeal not just in the Arab world but
universally. The very charter of the UN subtly implies that such goals
are the way forward.
Secular Arab governments have therefore not fallen due to their lack
of popularity but they have fallen due to political and military
aggression from Israel, monetary blackmail and terrorism funded from and
by Saudi Arabia and a combination of all of the above from the United
States and her European allies. Useful idiots in the west who claim that
groups like the obscurantist and terroristic Muslim Brotherhood
represent majoritarian public opinion in secular Arab states are simply
worse than useful idiots: they are lying, dangerous idiots.
This is why Syria is a country that Israel and Saudi Arabia are both
interested in destroying. Both countries have indeed invested time and
money into destroying Syria and thus far they have not been successful.
Syria is the last secular Arab Ba’athist state in the world. Unlike
in Israel, minorities have full constitutional rights and unlike in
Saudi Arabia, all religions are tolerated. In Syria, women can act,
speak and dress as they wish.
Syria’s independence has in the past thwarted Israel’s ambition to annex
Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and additional parts of Syria itself
(Israel still occupies Syria’s Golan Heights). Syria has also been a
true ally of the oppressed Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.
Likewise, Syria has hurt Saudi Arabia and fellow backward Gulf state
Qatar’s ambitions to expand their petro-empires. Qatar remains desirous
to construct a pipeline running through Syria, something Qatar wants
done on its terms and its terms alone.
Furthermore, since Saudi Arabia has little to offer the world in
terms of culture, Saudi attempts to control and colonise their more
educated and worldly Levantine Arabs is done through a combination of
bribery and through the use of Salafist terrorist proxies such as ISIS
and al-Qaeda.
There is also a psychological element to the mutual warfare which
Saudi Arabia and Israel have waged on secular states like Syria.
So long as Syria exists, Saudi Arabia cannot say that there is no
alternative to its backward style of government in the Arab world. Of
course, others like Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt are secular states (Iraq
less so now than at any time since independence), but these states have
been wholly compromised through war and in the case of Egypt through
political malaise.
Syria remains strongly independent and refuses to surrender its values.
Both countries also seek to destroy Iran. Iran unlike Saudi Arabia
and Israel, practices an ethical foreign policy. Far from wanting to
export its Islamic Revolution, Iran has been a staunch ally to secular
Syria and has been at the forefront of the fight against Salafist
terrorism like ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Iran has also taken a principle stance on Palestine, whilst most Arab
states with the exception of Syria, have long ago given up on the
Palestinian cause.
Israel and Saudi Arabia have superficial differences in foreign
policy, but their main goals are exactly the same. Both seek to retard
the progress of the Arab world and to taint Islam as something it is
not.
Saudi Arabia and Israel both want non-Muslims to think of
Islam as something representing bombs, female enslavement, physical
mutilation and barbarity. Syria has shown the world that real Islam looks a lot like Christianity and frankly a lot more like Christianity than atheistic Europe does in 2017.
Saudi Arabia and Israel are allies in the material and psychological
war against secular, modern Arab countries. It is a war which the United
States has been fighting on behalf of Riyadh and Tel Aviv for decades.